81st Star Class Bacardi Cup at Miami, Florida

81st Star Class Bacardi Cup at Miami, Florida - Day 3

by Lynn Fitzpatrick 5 Mar 2008 06:44 GMT 2-7 March 2008

Peter O'Leary & Stephen Milne win the third race in the Star Class Bacardi Cup © Alex Gort

John Dane & Austin Sperry on day three in the Star Class Bacardi Cup © Alex Gort

The youngest team on the water wins the day

The second day of a moderate sea breeze left Biscayne Bay awash with handfuls of seaweed and partly sunny skies. After the third attempt at a start, most of the fleet headed toward Key Biscayne and a cloud bank to the northeast on their first tack to a mark that was set at 165 degrees, 2.4 nautical miles away.

For the second time in three races, past Star World Champion, Alan Adler and Ricardo Ermel (BRA) put together a great start and a spectacular first beat to round the weather mark in first, five boat lengths ahead of George Szabo and Rick Peters (USA) whose boat was badly damaged during the first race of the series. John Dane and Austin Sperry (USA), Joe Zambella and Bob Weinstein (USA) and Guns O’Leary and Stephen Milne (IRL) were in hot pursuit as they bore away for the first run.

Szabo/Peters jumped into the lead by staying right on the run. O’Leary/Milne “gained a boat on the downwind leg by staying in the middle, not going to extremes and trying to find pressure,” said Milne who spent a lot of time looking aft at a huge fleet behind him. The youngest team on the water had their work cut out for them during the remainder of the race. They played the middle left up the next beat and took a short hitch to sneak inside the weather mark just ahead of Dane/Sperry. Their mentors, Iain Percy and Andrew Simpson (GBR), were hot on their tails.

O’Leary/Milne and Dane/Sperry broke away from the fleet as O’Leary/Milne took the high road and Dane/Sperry took the low road. “Dane did a good job of slipping in low at the offset. It was a nice feeling to round in the lead, but then the pressure was really on to the thought his experience would win out over the young Irishmen, Dane replied, “Of course, experience and calmness overcomes a lot of things in an 8-10 knot breeze with a big fleet,” but the boys had nice downwind speed and powerful gybes.

With their third place finish in the race, Percy/Simpson pulled into the lead for the regatta. “I’ve won a lot of races in the Bacardi over the years, but I haven’t won the Bacardi Cup yet,” said Percy earlier this week.

The legendary Bacardi Cup, ranked as one of the best international sailing regattas in the world, is sponsored in full by Bacardi U.S.A., Inc. and co-hosted by the Coral Reef Yacht Club and the U.S. Sailing Center in Miami, FL. What started out in 1927 as a three-day event with less than 10 boats in Havana, Cuba, now attracts more than 200 sailors each year from some 25 countries and remains one of the few sporting events in which weekend enthusiasts have the opportunity to compete head on with Olympians and World Champion athletes.

Event Video:

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Results after Day 3:

Pos	Sail No	Helm	Crew	R1	R2	R3	Pts
1	GBR 8345	Percy Iain	Simpson Andrew	3	14	3	20
2	BRA 8284	GRAEL LARS	JORDÁO MARCELO	7	1	16	24
3	POR 8309	Domingos Afonso	Santos Bernardo	12	9	7	28
4	BRA 8337	Adler Alan	SEIFERT RONALD	2	19	8	29
5	IRL 8261	O'Leary Peter	Milne Stephen	14	15	1	30
6	ITA 8266	Negri Diego	Viale Luigi	16	7	12	35
7	ITA 8313	Barovier Alberto	Colaninno Nando	23	4	9	36
8	BRA 8255	SCHEIDT ROBERT	PRADA BRUNO	4	12	21	37
9	USA 8285	Diaz Augie	Trinter Phil	9	3	29	41
10	SUI 8296	Marazzi Flavio	De Maria Enrico	15	21	5	41
11	IRL 8254	O'Connell Maurice	Cooke Ben	8	6	35	49
12	NZL 8187	PEPPER Hamish	Peel Ed	19	13	18	50
13	ITA 8180	Bruni Francesco	NOBILI Gilberto	22	5	24	51
14	ITA 8281	Modena Luca	Lambertenghi Sergio	18	2	37	57
15	NOR 8234	Melleby Eivind	Pedersen Petter	1	31	26	58
16	BER 8272	Bromby Peter	White Lee	6	20	34	60
17	USA 8230	DANE John	Sperry Austin	20	39	2	61
18	POL 8209	Kusznierewicz Mateusz	Zycki Dominik	11	8	45	64
19	AUT 8226	Spitzauer Hans	Nehammer Christian	5	55	10	70
20	USA 8312	Merriman Rick	Sharp Brian	17	47	11	75
21	AUS 8214	Murray Iain	Palfrey Andrew	13	23	39	75
22	USA 8273	Szabo George	Peters Rick	26.5 [26.5, RDG]	49	4	79.5
23	USA 8136	Filter Henry	Wagner Will	21	24	36	81
24	FIN 8094	MAKILA Jali	Heinonen Erkki	24	29	30	83
25	ITA 8290	Santoni Silvio	Natucci Dodo	38	11	42	91
26	USA 8303	Macdonald Andy	Fatih Brian	27	43	23	93
27	JPN 8144	SUZUKI Kunio	WadaDaichi	32	34	27	93
28	USA 8195	Maccausland John	Murphy Kevin	40	18	38	96
29	USA 8306	Buckingham Jim	Monroe Eric	29	48	19	96
30	ARG 7907	MacGowan Fabian	ENGELHARD Federico	31	52	17	100
31	USA 8320	Reynolds Mark	Gale Jamie	10	16	76	102
32	ESP 7581	Bermudez Roberto	Ferreira Marcelo	34	45	25	104
33	BAH 8265	Kelly Steven	Bill Holowesko	42	54	13	109
34	ARG 7	Rigoni Alejo	Gonzalez Gustavo	35	32	46	113
35	USA 8176	Lidecis Erik	Marzahl Michael	25	75	15	115
36	SUI 7990	Stegmeier Daniel	Stegmeier Beat	50	46	28	124
37	USA 8077	Londrigan Tom Jr	Hall Stewart	42 [42, RDG]	62	22	126
38	CRO 8280	Lovrovic Dan	Lovrovic Sr Marin	55	35	40	130
39	USA 7986	Labandeira Julio	Chernobilsky Nicolas	26	61	44	131
40	ITA 8332	Chieffi Enrico	Galli Massimo	33	30	68	131
41	CAN 8143	Cramer Brian	Bjorn Tyler	62	37	33	132
42	CRO 8339	Lovrovic Jr Marin	Mikulicic Sinsa	119 [BFD]	10	6	135
43	CHI 8319	Zuazola Rodrigo	Riegel Robert	45	17	75	137
44	UKR 8205	Datsenko Kostyantin	Yevseyenko Oleksandr	65	25	47	137
45	USA 8264	McChesney Peter	Zwingelberg Shane	46	51	41	138
46	USA 8317	Vandermolen Jon	Ticknor Steve	59	28	54	141
47	ARG 8169	Zanetti Alberto	Warburg Gustavo	58	44	43	145
48	BRA 8283	Brun Gastao	Kraiczyk Fabio	28	70	48	146
49	USA 8215	Allen Bill	Hatfield Bruce	52	38	56	146
50	USA 8269	Kohlhas Jock	Scott Larry	47	42	64	153
51	FRA 8107	Rohart Xavier	Rambeau Pascal	119 [BFD]	26	14	159
52	GBR 7601	Hicks Michael	Hicks Patrick	48	57	58	163
53	BRA 8282	PASCOLATO ALESSANDRO	Boening Henry	49	63	53	165
54	USA 8245	Zambella Joe	Morey Ed	73	74	20	167
55	GER 8130	Voigt Henning	Dirk Steve	51	59	57	167
56	SUI 8085	Zimmerman Lorenz	Mutti Michael	53	56	59	168
57	GER 7971	Stanjek Robert	Koy Markus	119 [DSQ]	22	31	172
58	USA 8043	Manderson John	GOTSULYAK Roman	43	68	66	177
59	SUI 8009	Gautschi Christoph	Gouda Alex	44	84	49	177
60	HUN 8166	Tenke Tibor	Bendicsek Jozsef	36	71	72	179
61	USA 8336	Fields Bill	Rogers Chris	79	41	61	181
62	GER 8213	Wilhelm Peer	Hollweg Nils	37	95	51	183
63	RUS 8305	Shevtsov Sergey	Sadchikov Roman	39	27	119 [BFD]	185
64	UKR 8096	Avksentien	Kondratyuk	60	64	74	198
65	ITA 8341	Boggi Lucio	Laporta Manuel	119 [BFD]	50	32	201
66	CAN 7784	Li Hongquan	Wang He	63	72	67	202
67	CAN 7474	Hendershot Will	Vranderick Alain	76	66	62	204
68	BRA 8300	FICKER PETER	Lopes Arthur	68	76	63	207
69	NED 8103	Bierman Guus	Skinner Duncan	74	80	55	209
70	USA 8253	Brethorst Rick	Anderson Scott	54	78	78	210
71	USA 8159	Proctor Ched	Semler Matt	119 [DNS]	40	52	211
72	SWE 7978	Krook Ingvar	Hasselgren Henrik	57	106	60	223
73	USA 8061	Jennings Jack	Rehe Mike	119 [DNS]	36	70	225
74	GER 7865	Lehnert Stefan	Menning Peter	71	60	95	226
75	USA 8218	Serinis Aaron	Schofield Bob	41	73	119 [DNF]	233
76	GER 8311	Hampe Axel	Conrads Chris	67	96	71	234
77	ITA 7562	Bettarini Stefano	Giachetti Alessandro	87	83	65	235
78	USA 7713	Fransen Ben	Coleman Ian	72	90	73	235
79	USA 7370	Emmet Rob	Amlong Paul	88	65	83	236
80	GER 8256	Merkelbach Hubert	Bartel Gerrit	119 [DNS]	33	85	237
81	USA 8036	Rickard Jack	Farrier Tom	75	93	69	237
82	ITA 8156	Irrera Renato	Corrado Cristaldini	64	85	89	238
83	USA 8279	Bonanni Claude	Burgess Rick	70	82	86	238
84	USA 8222	Gardner Ed	Gardner Kip	69	69	104	242
85	GER 7863	Meyer Klaus	Boguhn Lutz	93	102	50	245
86	GER 7866	Thomsen Dierk	Jensen Darin	83	81	87	251
87	AUT 8216	Tomasini-Grinover Roberto	Bahr Gunnar	119 [DNF]	53	84	256
88	ITA 8164	Chinca Valerio	Ciano Massimo	119 [DSQ]	58	79	256
89	ARG 8239	Pendola Martin	Engelhard Juan Pablo	61	77	119 [BFD]	257
90	ITA 8344	Tamburini Antonio	Ricci Renzo	56	108	94	258
91	SUI 8329	Wyss Daniel	Joss Urs	77	100	81	258
92	GER 7750	Burmester Jens	Mehlen Markus	78	92	88	258
93	USA 8063	Collins Bert	Wilson Kris	89	88	82	259
94	USA 7934	Von Schwarz Karl	Beigel-vosbury Barbara	96	87	80	263
95	GER 8016	Rauch Hubert	Kling Felix	81	91	93	265
96	UKR 8314	GUREYEV Vasyl	KOROTKOV Volodymyr	30	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	268
97	USA 8227	Gudat Patrick	Smith Mark	82	89	101	272
98	CAN 8045	Passmore Mark	Bunner Ivan	119 [DNF]	79	77	275
99	GER 7816	Girr Fritz	HASCHE Marko	119 [DNF]	67	90	276
100	CAN 7520	Gagnon Andre	Despres Daniel	84	101	91	276
101	USA 8132	De La Villehuchet Thierry	Gesing	86	99	92	277
102	USA 7814	Donald Keith	Hardin Chris	80	105	96	281
103	USA 8087	McNeil Kevin	Baltins Arnis	66	97	119 [DNS]	282
104	USA 8083	Chiarella John	Carlson Bob	85	98	100	283
105	AUT 8021	Wirth Harald	Pickering Jim	94	94	103	291
106	USA 7902	Gunther Stephen	Day Tom	98	86	108	292
107	USA 7786	Alt Karen	Perkins Rowan	92	104	98	294
108	CHI 8181	Rusowsky Fernando	Gimeno Vincente Pablo	95	103	105	303
109	USA 7970	Hopkins Sam	Kaplan Bart	97	110	97	304
110	USA 8207	Sperry Brooks	Contaras Robert	90	119 [DNS]	99	308
111	GER 7946	Weiler Hermann	Schmid Thomas	91	111	107	309
112	USA 7851	Phinney Mike	Balmert Brad	99	109	102	310
113	USA 7828	Pro Joseph	Pro Nicolaus	100	107	106	313
114	USA 7602	Londrigan Patrick	Burgandy Ron	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	119 [DNF]	357
114	NZL 8061	Lord Rohan	Addy Miles	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	357
114	ESP 8297	Van Der Ploeg Jose Maria	RiveroFernandez Rodriguez	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	357
114	USA 8235	Whipple Larry	Bjorn Kai	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	357
114	USA 8157	Anosov Arthur	Dolan Mark	119 [DNF]	119 [DNS]	119 [DNS]	357